Home theatre system

Home theatre system

Of or relating to private home entertainment set-ups that seek to reproduce the cinema going experience with the help of video and audio equipment.

Industry: Consumer electronics

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active loudspeaker

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A loudspeaker with built-in amplification for all the drivers. Some speakers have an amplifier built-in for bass only, but these are not regarded as active. Most loudspeakers are passive, not active.

A method of impressing a signal onto a sine wave for its transmission or storage. A constant frequency sine wave has its amplitude increased or decreased from moment to moment to correspond with the ...

compact cassette

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A neatly packaged magnetic tape recording and playback system for audio introduced in the 1960s. This uses a narrow plastic tape with four tracks running at a speed of 28.6mm/s (1 1/8 inches per ...

aperture grille

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A part of a CRT TV tube. This is a barrier within the tube, placed between the electron guns at the narrow end and the phosphor screen at the wide end. It consists of a series of vertical wires or ...

audiophile

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A person who places, or would like to place if circumstances permitted, a high priority on having an audio system that performs very highly. They have generally trained themselves to be very ...

baffle

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A plate surrounding a driver in a loudspeaker. The lower the frequency of the sound produced by the vibrating cone of a driver, the more apt it is to simply cause air to rush from one side of the ...

class a/b

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A power amplifier in which a certain amount of DC bias voltage is applied to the power transistors so that, at low power outputs, the output signal operates entirely in the positive or negative part ...